Using Quia in the Classroom

Steve McTaggart
Solanco School District

Session Notes:


Create activities, quizzes, games, Web pages, surveys, and more!

Consider using a Moodle site for your course and then linking to Quia activities.
Almost 20,000 hits to date.

How much does Quia cost?
There is a 30 day free trial.

Quia costs $49 (U.S. dollars) per year, per instructor.
This includes access for all of an instructor's students.
Discount pricing is available for groups of ten or more instructors. .

Students can have accounts that allow them to track their performance on activities.
Consider having students challenge parents on games / activities.

Types of games:
  • flashcards
  • matching
  • concentration
  • word search
  • battleship
  • challenge board
  • cloze
  • columns
  • hangman
  • jumbled words
  • ordered list
  • patterns
  • picture perfect
  • pop-ups
  • rags to riches
  • scavenger hunt

Images / maps / cartoons can be added to quiz questions / acitvities.

Data analysis is available, question by question, for each assessment.
Reports can be generated and printed by student / class / etc.

There is a Shared Activities Zone that is available to anyone without a subscription.